Raven could only see darkness. She couldn't feel her arms or legs, but she could somehow tell that she was floating. Her mind felt like it was drifting away from her body, and against her wise judgement she let it go.

This feeling was strangely... familiar. She's been through this before. She just couldn't remember when.

As she drifted around in her mental limbo, she could somehow hear a voice in the distance. Wait, two voices. Was that her voice... and Robin's? As she strained to hear what the voices said, she was rather shocked to realise that it sounded like all of their previous conversations jumbled up together.

Why am I hearing this now? What's happening to me?

Raven tried to gather her thoughts together, but every time she tried to focus on one the thought would slip away like sand through her fingers. She closed her eyes, willing herself to concentrate. As she did so, images flashed before her: the first realisation that Robin and her had switched bodies, the first time she slept in Robin's room, the moment when Robin had helped her use the toilet, the incident when she had grabbed Robin's chest... but just that in those memories she was still in her own body and Robin was in his. It was like looking at the past events with both of them still in their true forms.

Every memory zipped past her in a blur. Raven struggled to stay alert. There was something in this moment that made her feel so relaxed and tired. She didn't want to do anything, think of anything, worry about anything -

No.

With a jolt, Raven came to her senses. She had to think rationally. Something was happening to her because of the body switch, and if she was affected in this way, then...

Robin. He had to be going through this too. Desperately, Raven started to will her arms and legs to move, ignoring her body's protests. He was definitely somewhere here with her. She had to get to him somehow.

As normalcy started to return to her body, Raven checked herself nervously. I got my body back. She sighed in relief as she studied her pale hands and her arms, ensuring that they were authentic. It felt great to have control over her own body. Everything just seemed less wrong like this. Even if she was floating in some weird black hole.

Raven quickly regained her rationality. If there was any way she was going to get out of this strange dimension, she was most probably going to have to find him first. Raven tried summoning her powers; they didn't work. Cursing inwardly, she allowed herself to float into a horizontal position with her stomach facing downwards before bending her knees together and pushing off, hoping that the air would act as an invisible platform.

Thankfully, it worked. Raven found herself gliding painfully slowly in her forward direction. While the speed wasn't there, at least she was moving. It was better than nothing.

As she glided forward, Raven looked in all four directions, hoping to see a sign that would lead her to the leader. She went on for what seemed like the longest time, but she couldn't seem to find anything. She was just floating along stupidly and blindly. This was getting so unnecessarily pointless – Wait. Right there. There was some sort of faint glimmer towards her left. It was so faint that she wouldn't have noticed it had she been any less observant. Squinting, Raven moved closer to the light.

Her breath caught. As she moved in to get a closer look, she saw Robin floating gently towards her, his cape rippling softly behind him. He had his mask on so she couldn't really tell on first sight if he was unconscious, but the relaxed look on the rest of his face proved so. His arms hung limply at his sides, and he didn't seem to be resisting the strange force that was pushing him around.

Funny, he looks a lot like a drowned fish. If any existed in the first place.

With a little more effort on her part, Raven managed to reach the unconscious leader. Grabbing his shoulders, she started to shake him as hard as she could. It was difficult because of the lack of energy in her body, but she had to wake him up. He would probably know what to do in this situation.

Robin's finger twitched. Heaving a sigh of relief, Raven bent her head close to his ear and said, "Robin?"

The leader made a strange noise before muttering, "Ermph."

"Robin, wake up."

"Errmph?"

"Robin, look at me. We are in a little situation right now."

"Errrrrmph..."

"Wake. Up. Now."

Robin blinked, struggling to open his eyes. On seeing her face, he managed a small smile. "Hi, Rae."

"Hi, Boy Wonder. Any idea where we are?"

Something seemed wrong with the leader. Keeping the dazed smile on his face, Robin replied tiredly, "No idea... don't really care..."

"Hey, don't fall asleep on me. Wake up."

"Don't worry about me, Rae, I'm doing good," Robin still had that weird possessed smile on his face. "Just need to sleep a bit... just a bit..."

Raven started to get a little worried. Robin never wanted to rest. Something in this place was making him lose all his energy, and it wasn't good. "Robin, I need you to focus."

To her horror, Robin looked like he was getting paler. If his smile could look any more dazed, it just did. "Rae, I can't. I just need to rest... am tired..."

"No, no, no," Raven said quietly, watching as all colour drained from the leader's face. Was he turning grey? "Robin, this is not you. Wake up, Rob."

The leader was slipping away from her again. She could feel it. He stopped responding altogether, his smile fading away as he slowly drifted back into unconsciousness.

For Azarath's sake, I can't fucking let him lose it here. Not here, dammit!

And strangely, she felt a sense of desperation deep in her heart. She couldn't lose him. Not now. Not in this way. There were things she knew about him, things she wanted to know about him...

What Raven did next was something she never thought she would ever do. It wasn't planned, but neither was it totally unintentional. In usual situations, she would follow her rational judgement. But somehow, something in that strange place made her choose differently. She worked on her gut instinct for the first time in her life.

In one swift movement, Raven placed her palms on Robin's cheeks and pressed her lips to his.

The feeling was explosive. Something flared inside of Raven, and a strange burning sensation filled her. She could feel her hair flying up in one sudden burst like something had just exploded behind her, and she noticed Robin's cape shooting up in the same way. The faint glimmer that outlined Robin started to increase in intensity until it was a bright glaring light that she couldn't look straight into anymore. The outline expanded, growing so large until it surrounded them. Closing her eyes to protect them from the light, she held on to the leader for dear life.

Robin jerked back to his senses, his eyes widening as he came to terms with his current circumstance. Raven wasn't sure if he was going to accept the fact that she just shamelessly kissed him on instinct, but he didn't provide any resistance at all.

Slowly and hesitantly, Robin held Raven to him as the ball of light swallowed them whole.


Raven shot up, and instantly hit her head against the doorknob of the cubicle door behind her. "Fuck," she seethed, her head throbbing from both the bruise and the grogginess that still dogged her.

A woman exited a cubicle beside her, shooting her a curious look as Raven sat with her back against the door, taking deep breaths to calm herself down. At the sight of Raven's face, the woman immediately smiled widely.

What the... Do I know her?


Random Girl number 5 was overjoyed. The fight with the slut had been worth it. The prey was right here. Waiting for her to come and collect her in all her gothic perverse glory. She knelt down beside the cloaked hottie, her eyes drinking in the sight before her. "Hey, sweetie, nice to meet you again."

The cloaked lady didn't look at her. "Do I know you?"

"I'm a little disappointed. Have you forgotten how hard I fought for you?"

"You what?"

"I fought for you. I sacrificed my beautiful ears for you. I - "

"Your ears?"

"Yes! My beautiful ears!" Random Girl number 5 hissed. "I can't believe you are pretending not to know me, you ungrateful little slu - "

Her words died in her mouth as the girl turned to look at her. It was a... dead expression. It wasn't even a glare. It was a look that said something like I-don't-really-give-a-shit-about-you-or-your-life-but-if-you-want-to-waste-my-time-on-you-I-will-kill-you-and-your-family-and-your-little-kitty-too-while-I'm-at-it.

Raven looked at the woman before her with no comprehension at all. She wasn't really registering what the crazed woman was saying because they were hardly of any importance to her, but the way the woman was waving her arms about flamboyantly was proving to be a rather annoying distraction. Her head was still spinning, and she was in no mood to entertain this person's antics.

And then she remembered. Drifting around in limbo with Robin. Kissing Robin. Feeling Robin's hands on her waist. Being blinded by some light.

And then waking up in her own body.

She stared at her hands confusedly. She was back to normal? How? What made her get her body back?

And why did she kiss Robin? Why the fuck did she do it? And why had she felt happy when she did it?

Getting to her feet, Raven stumbled to the mirror in front of her, breathing slowly through her mouth as she took in the sight of her face once more. She never thought she would appreciate her own face this much. But that was a long time ago. A crazy incident ago.

She could feel the woman's gaze on her, burning into her back. She didn't even need to turn around to know it. "I don't know who you think you are, but it's rude to stare."

The woman's mouth opened and closed repeatedly as if words were going to come out. She made a weird strangled sound.

Raven turned around to glare at the staring woman, starting to lose her patience. "Beat it."

With a little fangirlish squeal, the woman dashed out of the washroom as if on cue, her eyes dancing with a strange excitement that seemed to come from nowhere. Raven sighed, turning her attention back to the mirror. What had happened?

Okay, I'm in a toilet. That's where I last blacked out. But something's different.

Raven thought back to the strange woman who talked about her ears. A woman walked out of the cubicle, so that could only mean...

I woke up in the female toilet. I'm pretty sure I entered the male one just now. I even checked.

So that could only mean two things. One, her body somehow made its own way to the ladies' to collapse there because it knew it would be more convenient for its owner.

Or two, the one which made a lot more sense, was that Robin had been in this toilet before he switched bodies with Raven. But this toilet looked very much like the other one she had been in.

Did that mean Robin was somewhere nearby?

With a little gasp, Raven dashed out of the washroom, looking around frantically for any sign of Robin. There was none, except for the fact that she came face to face with someone she never expected to meet.

Beast Boy grinned at her, his green face holding a little tinge of red. "Rae? You finished hiding in the toilet?"

"What?" Raven asked stupidly, trying to understand the situation at hand.

"I saw you go into the toilet, you know, didn't know what you wanted to do in there, you know, 'cos before that I saw two chicks fighting over you, you know, it was crazy, like, you know, absolutely - "

"Chicks? What?"

BB dragged her by the hand towards the entrance to the dance floor. "We ain't finished here," he hiccuped, "still gotta dance. We still gotta dance."

"No, I don't want to..." Raven said desperately, trying to push his hand away. She was so tempted to use her powers to throw him off, but doing so would just attract unnecessary attention. There were so many people here. What was BB doing here? And what had Robin been doing with him?

Oh my god. Robin's going to find out I went on a date with Starfire on his behalf. This is bad -

"Are you alright, friend Robin? You look pale." Raven stiffened, whipping around immediately to see Starfire leading a rather dazed Robin in the same direction towards BB and herself. No no no I have to hide...

Robin looked up then, and their eyes met. Raven saw his eyes widen and his mouth opening to form a sentence that she was sure was going to be directed at her.

She quickly grabbed BB's hand and pulled him in another direction, away from the duo behind them. "This way, BB."

The drunk BB hardly provided any resistance, and he seemed to be having trouble forming sentences properly. "Why... where... fun over there!"

"No, BB, it's not fun over there, we have to leave."

"Don't wanna, just starting - "

Raven yanked on the green changeling's arm again. "We are leaving."

"You," BB pointed at her. "No fun. Boring Rae. Rae Boring. Raebor."

Raven wanted to kill him. "Shut up and follow me."

"Raebor. Raebor. Raebor." BB said incessantly in a badly imitated robotic voice. "Like spoilt Cyborg. Raebor. Raebor."

Raven didn't bother replying. Just as she was going to reach a door on the side, a dancing guy in nothing but a pair of sparkly pink shorts crashed into her. "Sorry, my dea..." he frowned at her. "Oh, you're a girl. Never mind. Look over here! A cute green hunk!"

Oh no, he is not going to take BB away -

It was too late. In a flash, BB had managed to worm his way out of her grip and was prancing off with the crazy guy in pink shorts, his arm around the guy's shoulder. Raven had a really bad feeling that BB had no idea what he was getting himself into.

Someone grabbed her by the wrist forcefully. Barely able to hold it in anymore, Raven gave a soft growl and prepared her powers. If it was that stupid staring woman again, she was going to give her something to think about.

She turned around to come face to face with Robin. This is not good.

Without saying a word, Robin dragged her out of the dancefloor towards the exit, past all the jeering suitors who were rather disappointed that their prey were hetereosexuals. When they reached the outside, Raven accidentally stepped onto a puddle of rainwater on the ground. Great. Absolutely great.

There was a moment of uncomfortable silence before Robin finally spoke.

"What just happened?" His voice wasn't as cold as she expected it to be, but it was still icy all the same. It was the I-know-you-did-something-wrong tone.

"I have no idea," she deadpanned.

"Why are you here?"

"Why are you here?"

"Don't answer my questions with questions. I don't have time for that."

Raven looked away. "I was out with Starfire."

"I can see that," Robin snapped. "I'm asking you why you were out with her. In my body."

"Look, I didn't know what else to do. She asked me to go out as a final request, and I had to say yes. She's a team mate, for goodness sake. I can't just coldly reject her and let her sit around being depressed. I had to let her get over you. If that's what you wanted." The last part came out as an uncertain and nervous mumble. She had no idea why.

"And you never thought that this so-called 'final request' will just end up making it more difficult for her to let go?"

Raven gave Robin a disbelieving stare. "Are you trying to be funny? I knew bringing her along with me will put her off. I agreed to this so that she will realise what an asshole I am and give up on me!"

Robin slapped a hand to his forehead. "Thanks for thinking so thoroughly, but your grand plan backfired."

"Backfired? I don't understand."

"Starfire just spent the last five minutes telling me how she loves the recent change in me and how... refreshing it was."

Raven slumped. "You can't be serious."

"I am. I hate to admit it, but I am. Do you have a brother? Starfire would probably be interested in dating him if you have one."

She glared at him. "This is no time to joke around, Robin." Giving him an accusing look, she continued. "And what were you doing here with BB?"

"He asked me to come over with him," Robin said matter-of-factly. "I had to keep an eye on him."

"In my body?"

"There wasn't any other way. If he came here unsupervised, God knows what he might do."

"He's already drunk."

"That's fine. He's the least of my worries right now." Robin looked at her levelly. "Why did you kiss me?"

The question hit Raven like a blow. She didn't know how to respond in a way that would fit her demoness nature, but no rational thought was entering her head at the moment. "I... just thought it was right. At the time, I mean."

Robin raised an eyebrow at her. "At the time?"

"When you were losing your mind," Raven said defensively. "I had to wake you up."

"Of all the ways - "

"That I could have woken you up, I chose the worst of the lot. I know," Raven sighed. "That sounds so much like you."

"I was thinking more along the lines of 'interesting'."

Raven stopped. "What?"

"You know, Raven, the number of times you ask 'what' can really outnumber the number of years dinosaurs lived."

"You exaggerate."

"No, I don't. But that's beside the point." Robin said. "Why did you decide to kiss me? You could have hit me again, like you did last time."

"I just didn't want to."

"Didn't want to?"

"Why are we talking about this, Robin?"

"I'm just curious."

She paused. "Robin, don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answers to."

"What if I want to hear it?" Robin was standing closer to her now, his face inches from hers. "Tell me."

Raven shifted uncomfortably at the close distance. She didn't know why he was doing this, but she also didn't know why she wasn't moving away either. Both of them stood in that position, staring at each other without embarrassment. "It felt normal," she murmured.

"Normal," Robin repeatedly quietly, never breaking eye contact.

"And appropriate."

"Appropriate."

"Okay, maybe it was something I wanted to do."

"Something you wanted to do."

"Don't be a parrot." She mumbled.

Robin smiled. "I'm a perfectly normal functioning human being."

"I don't understand why we are having this pointless conversa - "

The distance between them closed.

And Raven finally understood why she kissed him in the first place.